{"id":5566,"date":"2025-03-09T20:30:02","date_gmt":"2025-03-10T06:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/?p=5566"},"modified":"2025-03-09T20:30:02","modified_gmt":"2025-03-10T06:30:02","slug":"mobileviews-552-mostly-apple-news-with-guest-steven-hughes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/09\/mobileviews-552-mostly-apple-news-with-guest-steven-hughes\/","title":{"rendered":"MobileViews 552: Mostly Apple news with guest Steven Hughes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none; min-width: min(100%, 430px); height: 150px;\" title=\"MobileViews 552: Mostly Apple news with guest Steven Hughes\" src=\"https:\/\/www.podbean.com\/player-v2\/?i=s5ej9-1833fe0-pb&amp;from=pb6admin&amp;share=1&amp;download=1&amp;rtl=0&amp;fonts=Arial&amp;skin=1&amp;font-color=&amp;logo_link=episode_page&amp;btn-skin=7\" width=\"100%\" height=\"150\" scrolling=\"no\" data-name=\"pb-iframe-player\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/technology\/apple-says-some-ai-improvements-siri-delayed-2026-2025-03-07\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5567\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/MViews552-JonSteveMe.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1820\" height=\"1120\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/MViews552-JonSteveMe.jpg 1820w, https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/MViews552-JonSteveMe-300x185.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/MViews552-JonSteveMe-1024x630.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/MViews552-JonSteveMe-768x473.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/MViews552-JonSteveMe-1536x945.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1820px) 100vw, 1820px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In this podcast, Jon Westfall and I are joined by frequent guest panelist Steven Hughes. We discuss:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Recording this podcast using a 2020 M1 MacBook Air to compare the sound and video quality with the soon to be released 2025 M4 MacBook Air<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/news\/626482\/warner-bros-dvd-disc-rot-failure-2006-2008-replacement\">Warner Brothers offer to replace DVDs released in the 2006 to 2008 period<\/a> that are now experiencing &#8220;disc rot&#8221;<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Apple announced the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.apple.com\/newsroom\/2025\/03\/apple-introduces-ipad-air-with-powerful-m3-chip-and-new-magic-keyboard\/\">M3 iPad Air and new Magic Keyboard<\/a> for it<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Apple announced the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.apple.com\/newsroom\/2025\/03\/apple-introduces-the-new-macbook-air-with-the-m4-chip-and-a-sky-blue-color\/\">M4 MacBook Air<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2025\/03\/03\/ios-18-4-visual-intelligence-iphone-15-pro\/\">iOS 18.4 beta 2<\/a> bringing Visual Intelligence to the iPhone 15 Pro<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Some <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/technology\/apple-says-some-ai-improvements-siri-delayed-2026-2025-03-07\/\">Siri AI improvement now delayed (again<\/a>) until 2026<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Microsoft oddity: You need to manually provide a link from your Word document in OneDrive to create PowerPoint slides from it (vs. drag and drop or some other simpler process)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.picturethisai.com\">PictureThis iOS\/Android app<\/a> provides better plant recognition than Apple Intelligence<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B0DCCNHWV5\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Alexa+<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Available via <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/mobileviews.com-podcast\/id301171904?mt=2\">Apple iTunes<\/a>.<br \/>\n<a href=\"\u201chttps:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@ToddOgasawara\/podcasts\u201d\">MobileViews YouTube Podcasts channel <\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"\u201chttps:\/\/www.audible.com\/pd\/MobileViewscom-Podcast-Podcast\/B08K565TQS?qid=1640555789&amp;sr=1-1&amp;ref=a_search_c3_lProduct_1_1&amp;pf_rd_p=83218cca-c308-412f-bfcf-90198b687a2f&amp;pf_rd_r=TXEJVWB2VW471GJ9XQQ0\u201d&lt;\/a\">MobileViews Podcast on Audible.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this podcast, Jon Westfall and I are joined by frequent guest panelist Steven Hughes. 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